Wedding Wednesday - Sarah Smith and Henry Harrison Payton December 12, 1867

This is to Certify that Henry H. Payton of Onarga, Illinois and Sarah Smith of Onarga, Illinois were by me united in  HOLY MATRIMONY on the 12 day of Dec in the year our our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and 67.  In the presence of.........

STATE OF ILLINOIS
Irquois county 

I B F Price Clerk of the County of said County, hereby certify that Mr. Henry H. Payton was married to Sarah Smith in said County on the 12th day of December A.D. 1867 by Alexander G Wilson a Minister of the Gospel duly authorized to solemnize marriages by the Statute of the State of Illinois, as appears by his return and certificate of Marriage attached to the license granted therefor by the Clerk of this Court, and now on file in my office and record in Marriage Registration Book 1. Page 1. 

In witness of whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and attached the seal of said  County Court, at my office in Watseka, ILL. this 24th day of October A.D. 1900. B F Price.

As you can see this was with Henry Payton's Civil War pension file.

Henry Harrison Payton and Sarah Smith were my great great grandparents.

Census Sunday - 1870 US Federal Census - Milford Twp., Iroquois County, Illinois - Francis M. Smith

Page 22, Schedule 1. - Inhabitants of the Township of Milford, in the county of Iroquois, in the state of Illinois, enumerated by me on the 9th day of August, 1870. J. A. Holmes, Ass't Marshal. Post Office: Milford.

















Line 1 155 156 Aaron G. Daisy 34 M W Farmer 3.840  1.000 Indiana
Line 2               Dorcas Daisy    27 F W Housekeeper               Indiana
Line 3               Chas     Daisy   8  M W                                        Indiana
Line 4              Flora J Daisy      6 F W                                         Indiana
Line 5              Alto M Daisy     4 F W                                          Indiana
Line 6              Clinton F Daisy 4/12 M W                                   Illinois     
Line 7              Francis M Smith 16 M W                                 Indiana           
Line 8               Alice Pearce           19 F W                                Indiana

In 1870, at the age of 16 Francis Marion Smith, my 2x great grandfather, was living with his sister, Dorcas (Smith) Dazey in Milford, Iroquois, Illinois. The story goes that his parents died when he was young and he was raised by a sister. I believe he may have been raised by two sisters, since in a previous post I showed him living with sister, Martha in 1860.

Tombstone Tuesday - Smith- Sugar Creek Cemetery





Sugar Creek Chapel Cemetery is located in Stockland, Iroquois, Illinois

The Smith Plot

Francis Marion Smith
1 Sept 1853-15 Jan 1935

Mary A Hobson
1855 -1889
First wife of Francis M Smith

Lesley Earl Smith
infant son of Francis M and Mary A (Hobson) Smith
It is assumed that Mary died in childbirth, since Lesley and Mary both died in 1889

Minnie A Payton
14 Sep 1870-6 May 1952
Third wife of Francis M Smith
Minnie was the older sister of Josephine Evaline Payton wife of Joseph C Smith who was the son Francis Marion Smith and Mary A Hobson.